How to play guitar book
You could start to learn guitar from a book. This is not ideal, but books are abundant and easy to get a hold of. In fact, you would not even have to pay anything. That is what they have libraries for, and this is a good thing.
Starting at your local library would be an ideal place to start. You can pick up several books for free for a short period of time. This would give you the time to see what the books can offer you. If you think they can do a good job for you then you can go out and try to find more books.
Most of the books will have the basics, and what you should most certainly be looking for is for the book to start teaching you to read music. As I have talked about this before I will not go on and on about it, but learning to read music is something you should do. It is a foundation that can never be taken away. This is the basis of music and you can learn more instruments.
There are many musical book publishers and all seem to do a good job. Most have detailed illustrations and will teach you the theory. Theory is great as I have mentioned, but the book will fall short in a couple of areas.
A book can not tell you certain things. A book simply is not a human or even a video. However, you can read the lessons in the book as many times as you need to really learn what is being taught. And this would be something I would strongly suggest. Learning anything from a book usually requires a couple of reads. So do this at your digression.
Most of the books that I have seen also have a good number of photos showing you where the notes are and how to play them. So, you can get started from a book, but eventually you will need some other form of instruction. You simply can not learn the more advanced things from a book. I mean, how could you explain or teach a blues solo from a book.
That is just one good example of the limitations of a book. These days the DVD’s and online courses are the way to go. The books are the predecessors of these newer instructional materials.
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Choose Porsche Wheels
cleaned up a little bit and again I stumbled across these wheels found years ago. Ronal and Remotec with Porsche 5x130mm bold pattern. Does anyone have old dealer catalogues, tech documents or anything like that from these wheels? If so I would be glad if you would share a copy with us.Porsche wheel should be chosen as carefully as the high performance car they are going on. Here are a few considerations to keep in mind when choosing wheels for your Porsche.
A beautiful car deserves beautiful wheels, which is probably the biggest reason why aftermarket Porsche wheels are so popular. When you drive a car like a Porsche, it just does not make sense to leave the stock Porsche wheels on the car.
Aftermarket wheels for a performance car need to be chosen carefully, however. In order to get the most performance and enjoyment out of your wheels, here are several things to consider when you are shopping for Porsche wheels.
Wheel size: Porsche wheels are sized in two different ways; diameter and width. The diameter is the measurement from rim to rim across the middle of the wheel, while the width of the wheel is measured across the part where the tires go. Larger wheels are typically popular for performance cars. The larger the diameter, the smaller the sidewall of the tire that goes on it, which tends to improve the car's handling. Likewise, a wider wheel width takes a wider tire, which also improves a car's handling.
If you are thinking about buying Porsche wheels that are larger than your stock wheels, it is important to keep in mind how this will affect your speedometer and odometer. You should be able to find a tire that fits the new wheel, but that has the same outside circumference as the original size tire for the car.
Finish: Porsche wheels come in a variety of different finishes. The most popular finish is most likely chrome, but chrome also tends to be the most expensive. Aftermarket wheels also come in painted finishes, usually silver or black.
Regardless of which finish you get, it is important to keep your wheels clean and dry. Water can cause the wheels to rust, and dirt will also help to hold water in and encourage rust. Generally, the smoother the finish the easier it will be to keep clean. Unless you are willing to devote a considerable amount of time to cleaning and polishing your wheels, you will probably want to avoid any kind of a porous finish.
Construction and design: Construction and design are also important when choosing Porsche wheels. Wheels with a more open design allow for better air circulation and help to keep your brakes cool, not to mention they offer a more striking appearance! Aftermarket wheels also can be made out of a variety of different materials, which have benefits such as lightness or superior strength.
The importance of Porsche wheels: Few accessories add as much to your Porsche as aftermarket wheels. When chosen correctly, Porsche Rims can both increase performance, such as handling, and add to the appearance of your car. As much as is riding on your wheels (pun intended), it is important to consider your options carefully before selecting Porsche wheels on your car.
A beautiful car deserves beautiful wheels, which is probably the biggest reason why aftermarket Porsche wheels are so popular. When you drive a car like a Porsche, it just does not make sense to leave the stock Porsche wheels on the car.
Aftermarket wheels for a performance car need to be chosen carefully, however. In order to get the most performance and enjoyment out of your wheels, here are several things to consider when you are shopping for Porsche wheels.
Wheel size: Porsche wheels are sized in two different ways; diameter and width. The diameter is the measurement from rim to rim across the middle of the wheel, while the width of the wheel is measured across the part where the tires go. Larger wheels are typically popular for performance cars. The larger the diameter, the smaller the sidewall of the tire that goes on it, which tends to improve the car's handling. Likewise, a wider wheel width takes a wider tire, which also improves a car's handling.
If you are thinking about buying Porsche wheels that are larger than your stock wheels, it is important to keep in mind how this will affect your speedometer and odometer. You should be able to find a tire that fits the new wheel, but that has the same outside circumference as the original size tire for the car.
Finish: Porsche wheels come in a variety of different finishes. The most popular finish is most likely chrome, but chrome also tends to be the most expensive. Aftermarket wheels also come in painted finishes, usually silver or black.
Regardless of which finish you get, it is important to keep your wheels clean and dry. Water can cause the wheels to rust, and dirt will also help to hold water in and encourage rust. Generally, the smoother the finish the easier it will be to keep clean. Unless you are willing to devote a considerable amount of time to cleaning and polishing your wheels, you will probably want to avoid any kind of a porous finish.
Construction and design: Construction and design are also important when choosing Porsche wheels. Wheels with a more open design allow for better air circulation and help to keep your brakes cool, not to mention they offer a more striking appearance! Aftermarket wheels also can be made out of a variety of different materials, which have benefits such as lightness or superior strength.
The importance of Porsche wheels: Few accessories add as much to your Porsche as aftermarket wheels. When chosen correctly, Porsche Rims can both increase performance, such as handling, and add to the appearance of your car. As much as is riding on your wheels (pun intended), it is important to consider your options carefully before selecting Porsche wheels on your car.
Friday, January 15, 2010
Online Programs in St. Augustine School of Medical Assistants
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Employment is projected to grow much faster than average, ranking medical assistants among the fastest growing occupations over the 2008–18 decade. Job opportunities should be excellent, particularly for those with formal training". Formal training is now available online at many schools. One of the best and most popular is St. Augustine School of Medical Assistants, thier program is very affordable, nationally accredited adn certified. You can read more about this innovative program at: www.medassistant.org.
Why Are Health Care Organizations' Ethics Codes News?
This just in from the Orlando Sentinel,
The head of Central Florida's largest blood bank told Florida senators Wednesday that she has completely overhauled the operation — from the boardroom to the bloodmobile.
'Believe me, I get it,' an apologetic Anne Chinoda told members of a committee investigating the business ways of Florida's Blood Centers and other blood banks across the state.
Chinoda said FBC now prohibits board members from doing business with the agency, has instituted nine-year term limits for board members and has put together a group to review executive compensation. She also unveiled a blood-donor bill of rights she promised to publicize.
Sen. Don Gaetz, chairman of the health regulation committee that asked Chinoda to appear, said he was pleased by her testimony. 'What we saw today was an admission of inappropriate practices in the past and a promise they will be fixed,' he said.
These new ethical standards were a response to a past controversy,
Gaetz's committee has been investigating FBC, which generates $100 million in revenues annually, and the statewide industry since the summer.
The inquiry was triggered in part by a series of stories in the Orlando Sentinel that showed FBC board members have sold millions of dollars in goods and services to the agency each year; that board members had no term limits; and that Chinoda was compensated nearly $600,000 annually. Her salary was not discussed at the hearing.
Like others in the industry, FBC gets its blood for free from donors, tests and repackages it. FBC then sells the blood to 70 hospitals and medical facilities in 21 counties in Central and South Florida.
How often do you hear pleas from local blood banks about urgent shortages? How often do you donate blood, or feel bad because you did not or could not donate? Many people who selflessly donate blood were likely unpleasantly surprised to find out that blood banks sell (at a high price) the blood they donated, and used the proceeds to pay their executives generous salaries, and pay vendors run by their board members.
Here was another example of a previously revered local, not-for-profit health care institution run apparently for the personal benefit of its top insider leaders.
Why was it news when the organization in question adopted a code of conduct that limited self-dealing by board members, limited board members to only(?) nine-year terms, and put in place some sort or organized process to set the CEO's compensation? Do those not seem like they ought to be standard, and not newsworthy practices?
Similarly, an article in the Newark Star-Ledger back in November recounted how Hackensack University Medical Center in New Jersey, whose board members had been accused of self-dealing (see this post), and to which a New Jersey state legislator had been convicted of selling his services (see this post), had instituted "tightened ethics rules," including a provision that "board members will no longer be allowed to do business with the hospital." Again, why should a rule like this be news? One of the duties of board members of all not-for-profit organizations is the duty of loyalty, "a standard of faithfulness; a board member must give undivided allegiance when making decisions affecting the organization." Overpaying crony executives and authorizing business dealings with one's own business seem to obviously violate this duty.
We have noted how the business culture of health care organizations has increasingly come to resemble the larger business culture in an era of laissez-faire capitalism and the rise of new oligarchs and robber barons. So it is telling that it was also news when UBS, a large international bank enacted a code of ethics for its employees that required them to actually comply with "foreign tax reporting rules," (per Bloomberg.)
One would have once thought that health care organizations, given their responsibilities for human life and health, and their formerly sterling reputations, would have clear, comprehensive codes of ethics that are actually enforced. But it is news when a health care organization develops such a code (and it still may be news when such a code is enforced.)
This post summarized some current thinking on organizational ethics policies. In conclusion, I asked readers to think about whether their own health care organization had anything resembling such a policy. I suspect few could identify such policies.
Health care professionals need to inquire why health care organizations, including drug, device, biotechnology and health care information technology companies, health care insurers, to hospitals, academic medical centers, and medical schools, etc, almost never have real organizational ethics policies. Of course, the suspicion is that lack of such policies makes it easier for insiders to direct the organization for their personal benefit. At least if we could make such policies the norm, we could remind organizational leaders that they are supposed to be upholding the mission, not lining their pockets.
The head of Central Florida's largest blood bank told Florida senators Wednesday that she has completely overhauled the operation — from the boardroom to the bloodmobile.
'Believe me, I get it,' an apologetic Anne Chinoda told members of a committee investigating the business ways of Florida's Blood Centers and other blood banks across the state.
Chinoda said FBC now prohibits board members from doing business with the agency, has instituted nine-year term limits for board members and has put together a group to review executive compensation. She also unveiled a blood-donor bill of rights she promised to publicize.
Sen. Don Gaetz, chairman of the health regulation committee that asked Chinoda to appear, said he was pleased by her testimony. 'What we saw today was an admission of inappropriate practices in the past and a promise they will be fixed,' he said.
These new ethical standards were a response to a past controversy,
Gaetz's committee has been investigating FBC, which generates $100 million in revenues annually, and the statewide industry since the summer.
The inquiry was triggered in part by a series of stories in the Orlando Sentinel that showed FBC board members have sold millions of dollars in goods and services to the agency each year; that board members had no term limits; and that Chinoda was compensated nearly $600,000 annually. Her salary was not discussed at the hearing.
Like others in the industry, FBC gets its blood for free from donors, tests and repackages it. FBC then sells the blood to 70 hospitals and medical facilities in 21 counties in Central and South Florida.
How often do you hear pleas from local blood banks about urgent shortages? How often do you donate blood, or feel bad because you did not or could not donate? Many people who selflessly donate blood were likely unpleasantly surprised to find out that blood banks sell (at a high price) the blood they donated, and used the proceeds to pay their executives generous salaries, and pay vendors run by their board members.
Here was another example of a previously revered local, not-for-profit health care institution run apparently for the personal benefit of its top insider leaders.
Why was it news when the organization in question adopted a code of conduct that limited self-dealing by board members, limited board members to only(?) nine-year terms, and put in place some sort or organized process to set the CEO's compensation? Do those not seem like they ought to be standard, and not newsworthy practices?
Similarly, an article in the Newark Star-Ledger back in November recounted how Hackensack University Medical Center in New Jersey, whose board members had been accused of self-dealing (see this post), and to which a New Jersey state legislator had been convicted of selling his services (see this post), had instituted "tightened ethics rules," including a provision that "board members will no longer be allowed to do business with the hospital." Again, why should a rule like this be news? One of the duties of board members of all not-for-profit organizations is the duty of loyalty, "a standard of faithfulness; a board member must give undivided allegiance when making decisions affecting the organization." Overpaying crony executives and authorizing business dealings with one's own business seem to obviously violate this duty.
We have noted how the business culture of health care organizations has increasingly come to resemble the larger business culture in an era of laissez-faire capitalism and the rise of new oligarchs and robber barons. So it is telling that it was also news when UBS, a large international bank enacted a code of ethics for its employees that required them to actually comply with "foreign tax reporting rules," (per Bloomberg.)
One would have once thought that health care organizations, given their responsibilities for human life and health, and their formerly sterling reputations, would have clear, comprehensive codes of ethics that are actually enforced. But it is news when a health care organization develops such a code (and it still may be news when such a code is enforced.)
This post summarized some current thinking on organizational ethics policies. In conclusion, I asked readers to think about whether their own health care organization had anything resembling such a policy. I suspect few could identify such policies.
Health care professionals need to inquire why health care organizations, including drug, device, biotechnology and health care information technology companies, health care insurers, to hospitals, academic medical centers, and medical schools, etc, almost never have real organizational ethics policies. Of course, the suspicion is that lack of such policies makes it easier for insiders to direct the organization for their personal benefit. At least if we could make such policies the norm, we could remind organizational leaders that they are supposed to be upholding the mission, not lining their pockets.
Sunday, January 10, 2010
Yet Another Service Profession to be Revolutionized by IT
As in healthcare, here is yet another claim -- of the 'bellicose grandiosity' variety -- that IT will "revolutionize" a service profession.
From TheHill.com:
White House budget director blames old computers for ineffective government
By Ian Swanson - 1/14/2010
A big reason why the government is inefficient and ineffective is because Washington has outdated technology, with federal workers having better computers at home than in the office.
This startling admission came Thursday from Peter Orszag, who manages the federal bureaucracy for President Barack Obama.
The public is getting a bad return on its tax dollars because government workers are operating with outdated technologies, Orszag said in a statement that kicked off a summit between Obama and dozens of corporate CEOs.
... “It’s time to bring government into the 21st century,” Orszag said. “Information technology has the power to transform how government works and revolutionize the ease, convenience and effectiveness by which it serves the American people."
I really wish that claims of IT and revolutions would cease. Perhaps the word "increase" (as in "increase the ease, convenience and effectiveness by which government serves the people") would be more accurate and indeed less hysterical.
When you do hear the "R" word in association with computers, though, think very big bucks for the industry and for the management consultants, and a massive amount of uncompensated clerical work and aggravation for the profession to be "revolutionized."
From TheHill.com:
White House budget director blames old computers for ineffective government
By Ian Swanson - 1/14/2010
A big reason why the government is inefficient and ineffective is because Washington has outdated technology, with federal workers having better computers at home than in the office.
This startling admission came Thursday from Peter Orszag, who manages the federal bureaucracy for President Barack Obama.
The public is getting a bad return on its tax dollars because government workers are operating with outdated technologies, Orszag said in a statement that kicked off a summit between Obama and dozens of corporate CEOs.
... “It’s time to bring government into the 21st century,” Orszag said. “Information technology has the power to transform how government works and revolutionize the ease, convenience and effectiveness by which it serves the American people."
I really wish that claims of IT and revolutions would cease. Perhaps the word "increase" (as in "increase the ease, convenience and effectiveness by which government serves the people") would be more accurate and indeed less hysterical.
When you do hear the "R" word in association with computers, though, think very big bucks for the industry and for the management consultants, and a massive amount of uncompensated clerical work and aggravation for the profession to be "revolutionized."
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